Importance of submitting a site map?

orangecopper

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it provides better visibility for google bots to crwal your website..
its like introducing the different memebers of your family to a new person !

regards
joshu
 

ishie

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When you make and submit a sitemap to SE, you are creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your website. That's very important for site optimization purposes.
 

Suzy Miracle

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A sitemap makes for easy indexing and site wide navigation, submitting a site map to Google, Yahoo and Bing increase the chance of having all your site pages indexed.
 

Clairy

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Sitemap is not only for easy navigation but also it helps search engine to find immediate changes also it helps to classify the site content.
 

chrishirst

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An xml site map is nothing at all to with optimisation, it is PURELY to cover up a poor or complex navigational structure.
 

Tech Chris

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Site Maps, as people have stated, allow the google bot to crawl your website more easily and therefore get indexed quicker. It will also ensure that google will be able to see all the pages on your website and mena that all apges are within 2 clicks of your homepage (if the sitemap is on the homepage). This is a technicality though - it is more for ease of being indexed due to Google being able to crawl pages easily.
 
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chrishirst

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Site Maps, as people have stated, allow the google bot to crawl your website more easily and therefore get indexed quicker.
Nope. It MIGHT help if your navigation structure is problematic for SE user agents.



It will also ensure that google will be able to see all the pages on your website and mena that all apges are within 2 clicks of your homepage (if the sitemap is on the homepage).
That is ONLY if the "site map" is HTML using "real links". XML site maps, which is the topic of this thread, do NOT create "clickable" links.


This is a technicality though - it is more for ease of being indexed due to Google being able to crawl pages easily.
Nope! An XML site map is a "kludge" for poor or "uncrawlable" site navigation.
 

Tech Chris

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This is true, at no point should a sitemap be used as a remedy for poor 'navigational structure' as chrishirst says.

Apologies, I thought this was a thread about sitemap use but did not realise you were talking about XML. In my point about clicks away from homepage I was talking about a sitemap with HTML links. Sorry for the confusion!!:eek:
 

chrishirst

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I would have thought that
submitting a site map
might be a bit of a clue.

And really this thread should go back to its two year slumber and it would have remained so had some sig link poster not dragged it back up.
 
An xml site map is nothing at all to with optimisation, it is PURELY to cover up a poor or complex navigational structure.
Purely??? Again, for someone who nit-picks and is very head strong, WRONG.

From Google:
Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:
•Your site has dynamic content.
•Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process—for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images.
•Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
•Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Google doesn't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs. However, we use the data in your Sitemap to learn about your site's structure, which will allow us to improve our crawler schedule and do a better job crawling your site in the future. In most cases, webmasters will benefit from Sitemap submission, and in no case will you be penalized for it.

So saying sitemaps do not provide any SEO purposes is just bad information. And why nock a guy(or girl) who found an old post they felt they could add to??
 

chrishirst

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Staff member
Purely??? Again, for someone who nit-picks and is very head strong, WRONG.

From Google:
Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:
•Your site has dynamic content.
•Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process—for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images.
•Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
•Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Google doesn't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs. However, we use the data in your Sitemap to learn about your site's structure, which will allow us to improve our crawler schedule and do a better job crawling your site in the future. In most cases, webmasters will benefit from Sitemap submission, and in no case will you be penalized for it.

So saying sitemaps do not provide any SEO purposes is just bad information. And why nock a guy(or girl) who found an old post they felt they could add to??
Oh please, do stop talking complete bollocks just because your head is up your own rectum and you think I know nothing.


An xml site map is nothing at all to with optimisation, it is PURELY to cover up a poor or complex navigational structure.
I believe that is rather similar to what Google do say which you thoughtfully provided, that actually goes to disprove your point.

Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process

I do NOT see anywhere that suggest that the pages will be "optimised" by having an XML sitemap. Simply that it will help with finding the URLs, which search engines term as URL disvovery and is something they normally do by reading the links from the websites navigational structure.
 
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